Travis Mossotti has most recently been an English Lecturer at the
University of California Santa Cruz. His first full-length book of poetry, About the Dead, has been named the winner of the 2011 May Swenson Poetry Award and is forthcoming from Utah State University Press. Mossotti's poetry has appeared in Antioch Review, Cincinnati Review, Green Mountains
Review, Hunger Mountain, New York Quarterly, and many other
journals. In 2009 he won the James Hearst Poetry Prize and an Academy of
American Poets Prize.